English → Latin
“morose” in Latin
austērusaustere, plain; harsh, bitter, sour; sharp, pungent, tartsevērussevere, serious, strict, stern, stringent, austere, harsh, grave (in demeanor)tetricusforbidding, harsh, crabbed, gloomy, sour, stern, severedifficilisdifficult, hard, troublesome; obstinate, intractable, hard to please or managemōrōsuscaptious, persnickety, fastidious, difficult (to please); peevish, wayward, capricioustrīstissad, unhappy, melancholy, morose; sorrowful, mournful; disagreeable, harsh, bitter (of taste)
The English word morose itself goes back to Latin mōs, through mōrōsus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
morose
austerus, severus, tetricus, difficilis, morosus, tristis. SYN. in AUSTERE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for morose?
- The usual Latin words for “morose” are austērus, sevērus, tetricus; also difficilis, mōrōsus, trīstis. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.